Random Passwords head -c8 /dev/random | uuencode -m - | sed -n '2s/=*$//;2p' James Andrews
Monday, October 25, 1999 10:37:28 AM
This prints psuedo "random" characters, for use as a
password, for instance. The head command gets 16
bytes from the random device, uuencode flattens
out the data to convert control characters
into printable ascii and the sed magic at the
end just gives a short string with none of the
fluff from uuencode.
